David Flusser (1917 - 2000). Israeli professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Flusser was a devout Orthodox Jew who applied his study of the Torah and Talmud to the study of ancient Greek, Roman and Arabic texts, as well as the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Flusser scrutinized the ancient Jewish and Christian texts for evidence of the Jewish roots of Christianity. While critically distinguishing the historical Jesus from the portrayal in the Gospels and other Christian writings, Flusser saw Jesus as an authentic Jew, misunderstood by his followers.
Flusser published over 1,000 articles in Hebrew, German, English, and
other languages. The results of his many academic writings can be found
in his book, Jesus (1965), whose augmented second edition The Sage from Galilee (1998) was updated to incorporate his later research and views on Jesus.
- "Flusser is a short stocky man, with sharp little
cold green eyes that glint behind round-rimmed glasses, under modestly
Mephistophelian eyebrows, and red hair that stands straight up from his
forehead. [...] He has grown heavier since I last saw him and is thus
even more extraordinary in appearance, with his red hair, his sharp
little eyes..." https://www.jerusalemperspective.com/11118/
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